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Evaluating 4 Pittsburgh Pirates Batters And Predicting Their Future Performance Through DRC+

Deserved runs created plus, or DRC+ is one of the best all-encompassing offensive stats to look at when evaluating different players. It’s a league/era, and park-adjusted stat where 100 is the league average. Obviously, it was harder to hit a home run in 1900 than in 2019, and it’s easier to hit a home run in Coors Field than Oracle Park.

However, unlike other rate metrics such as wRC+ or OPS+, DRC+ also takes into account other factors such as the quality of the opponent. A batter who consistently does well vs a Jacob deGrom, or Kirby Yates caliber pitcher should be more valuable than one who only does well vs Matt Boyd or Alex Colome caliber pitchers.